LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ina
Tyn_e tows coaster and crew to safety in worsening weather When the 210ft coaster Ina lost power off the Devon coast on 4 November 1997 she soon found herself aground by the stern on the Mewstone, just off Bolt Head. With a south-easterly...
Boy John
Wells, Norfolk. At 9.30 on the even- ing of the 14th July, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretarythat a yacht was in distress off Blakeney.
There was a moderate west-south- westerly wind and a smooth sea...
American Coastal Lifeboat Development: An English Contribution By William D Wilkinson
AS THE RNLI celebrates its 150th anniversary, it is appropriate to acknowledge the help it has given many lifesaving services throughout the world. This help has taken many forms, one of the most significant being in the area of coastal...
Category: Articles
Our Inland Branches. Bradford. Derivation—Brae, a Hill, and Ford
UNTIL the beginning of the present century Bradford may be described as a place of no importance, though supplied by nature with every requisite to make it what it has now become, a town of the first magnitude. It is situated in the West...
Category: Articles
(Above) 'It's a Bit Big Mum!'
(Above) 'It's a bit big Mum!' The competition to dress up in lifeboatman's gear is always popular - even if the stores can't supply quite the right size.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Make every moment count
If you like having serious fun on the water, the RNLI has a magazine, safety pack and DVD especially for you
Sailing, powerboating, windsurfing, angling, diving, kitesurfing, canoeing, riding your personal watercraft ......
Category: Articles
Kia Ora
— The motor life-boat White Star was launched at 9.15 P.M. on the 27th July, as the coastguard had telephoned that a motor fishing boat was in distress about eighty yards oft the rocks E.S.E. of Kemmaes Head. A moderate N. wind was blowing....
Whitelink Bay and Gamrie Bay
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.—On the morning of the 24th June the coastguard at Kinnaird Head telephoned that two vessels were ashore near Cairnbulg. They were the steam drifters Whitelink Bay, of Fraserburgh, and Gamrie Bay, of Banff, which...
Inshore Lifeboat Services March April and May 1978
Aberdovey, Gwynedd March 27, April 23, 30 and May 23 Abersoch, Gwynedd April 9, May 25 and 31 Aberystwyth, Dyfed May 2 Appledore, North Devon March 5 Arbroath, Angus March 18, May 28 and 29 Arran (Lamlash) Buteshire May 28 Atlantic College,...
Category: Services
Boy Alan
Seaham, Durham - At 7.33 p.m. on 22nd December, 1967, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that flares had been sighted south of Seaham. The life-boat Amelia, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 7.38 in a strong south...